Gene kelly biography video of barack obama
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This August 23, 2012 marks the centennial of the birth of Gene Kelly, the great American dancer, actor, singer; a guy’s guy who—along with Fred Astaire—is the only male who ever left me (momentarily) wishing I could dance.
I’ve always felt a kinship with Gene Kelly. It starts with Pittsburgh, the town of our birth. Kelly was born there, a hardworking Irish Catholic kid, son of Harriet Catherine and James Patrick namn Kelly. He attended St. Raphael Elementary and eventually sparred in fistfights and on the dance floor before opening a studio in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill section.
And then there’s our connection to the University of Pittsburgh, from which we both graduated many decades apart—he in the 1930s, during the Great Depression. When I step on campus today, inom walk bygd his star engraved outside the William Pitt Union. There are no stars chiseled on campus for the likes of, säga, Thomas Starzl, who pioneered organ transplantation at Pitt’s School of Medicine, or for Jonas Salk
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A nation traumatized by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and very recent attack on the US Capitol was treated to a star-studded inauguration ceremony for President Joe Biden, between Lady Gaga performing “The Star-Spangled Banner” in custom Schiaparelli and Jennifer Lopez, clad in suffragette-white Chanel, mixing renditions of “This Land Is Your Land” and “America the Beautiful” with the final stanza of the Pledge of Allegiance, translated into Spanish: “¡una nación, bajo Dios, indivisible, con libertad y justicia para todos!”
Yet if the day had one big winner—other than, well, the president—it was surely 22-year-old Amanda Gorman, who, on the heels of delivering her poem “The Hill We Climb” in prim Prada, instantly became one of the most famous literary figures in America.
A live television special titled Celebrating America followed in the evening, with appearances from the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Justin Timberlake, Dave Grohl, Tim McGraw, Lin-Manuel Mir
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In the Washington Post blog "PostPartisan," Jonathan Capehart describes Donald Trump as "the Big Apple billionaire" who "gleefully dances through the nativist, racist, misogynistic slop as if he were Gene Kelly in 'Singing [sic] in the Rain."
Donald Trump's toxic comments about immigrants and women are completely counter to the spirit of my late husband Gene Kelly and his brilliantly-conceived and executed dance numbers. A true Renaissance man, Gene grasped the complexities of our cultural heritage. He spoke multiple languages, had a firm understanding of history, literature, economics (his major in college), politics and of our fundamental human rights.
A child of the Depression, Gene grew up in a lower middle class neighborhood in Pittsburgh that he described as "polyglot," with surnames ranging from Goldvarg, Lefkowitz, Litschge, Magidson, Madden, Edmonson, Tillery, Quinn, Klein, and Snee. His own father emigrated from Canada, his grandfather from Ireland. His grandmot